Any suggestion for ISP

Chris Devers cdevers at pobox.com
Wed Mar 10 18:28:39 EST 2004


On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:05:23 -0800 (PST)
> Dava Peters <gameslover987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Any suggestion for good ISP within Boston Area?
> > T1 or DSL
>
> Unfortunately, DSL is not available to many locations. Most of the
> Boston area has Comcast at 3Mbps down/256Kbps up. The service is
> reliable (at least in my area), but they only provide an automatic IP
> and you will be limited to the servers you can run.
> 
> For DSL, you might try Verizon, or Galaxy Internet (http://www.gis.net). 
> Verizon uses PPPoE, but I think that neither DSL is available to you
> either. 

This is just plain FUD.

Both Verizon & SpeakEasy have good coverage and good service. 

Comcast may be nice, but it isn't necessarily better than DSL. 

If the plans are appealing, Dava should contact the ISP and see if they
have service nearby. Chances are excellent that they will.


-- 
Chris Devers




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